Sentences with phrase «upon the ground of»

Dealing first with the direct discrimination claim, the Federal Court of Appeal did not apply the Withler test for discrimination upon the ground of family status, as was advanced by Mr. Grenon (at para 6).

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There is therefore little reason for apprehensiveness on the ground merely of anti-Semitic propaganda based upon increasing numbers.

This method of multi-option presentation will make it easier for the two of you to find a mutual ground you can both agree upon.

In returning its verdict Thursday afternoon on the sixth day of deliberations, the Superior Court jury also pronounced Jose Ines Garcia Zarate not guilty of assault with a firearm, finding credence in defense attorneys» argument that the shot that ricocheted off the concrete ground before piercing Steinle's heart was an accident, with the gun discharging after the defendant stumbled upon it on the waterfront on July 1, 2015.

Upon completion, the future of ground transportation could shorten travel time from L.A. to San Francisco to just 30 minutes.

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I was enlightened by this program and by its biblical and philosophical grounding instantly upon encountering it; and my agreement with it is a chief reason of the extensive indebtedness of my thinking to Pannenberg's.

prophet mohammad peace be upon him had a jew neighbor, and the jew used to put dirt in front of the prophet house all the time, one day our prophet didn't find any dirt, and he went to the jew house, he asked him what happend, and found out the jew was sick, and the jew fell on the ground crying for what he used to do to Mohammad, and announced his islam.

With scant grounding in constitutional text or tradition, court majorities took it upon themselves (usually over strong dissents) to remove a number of matters from legislative and local control.

The cosmology of a people, its common sense, is thus foundational for it, the solid ground upon which its meanings, its presumptions about reality and its sense of purpose, rest.

It expands upon what this means: the Father (compassion, love, concern, care); Almighty (the Ultimate, all - powerful, over all, in all, through all things, the Supreme); creator of heaven and earth (the source, the infinite unfathomable ground zero).

(Gen 3:20) And it will depend upon us as to where we are personally going, be it life in a paradise earth forever (Rev 21:3 - 5) or return to ground from which we came when we die, having been just a speck in the time line of history.

This should be stressed because the contrary supposition might arise from Whitehead's statement... that upon objectification an actual entity «acquires efficient causation whereby it is a ground of obligation characterizing creativity»» (PR 40).

Niebuhr's desire to maintain Protestantism as a revitalizing movement grounded upon the primacy, immediacy, and nearness of God guided his thought.

In the words of Paul, salutary teaching produces piety or godliness, which gives rise to a moral life grounded upon the intrinsic social nature of human existence.

Hence the freedom of a Christian was grounded upon the free initiative of God.

But this does not imply and must not suggest that the gospel is not grounded in history and established upon events which actually occurred in the world of human experience.

What we ought to be able to discover in this world picture, once the incredible science is gone, is a conception of the universe in which, under what are for us weird and frequently utterly impossible images, the whole creation is seen as dependent upon a loving and active God who is its ultimate meaning and its ground of being.

Our temptation in this situation is to seize upon those New Testament images of Jesus that are seemingly free of a transcendent ground with the hope that we can thereby arrive, at an image of a fully contemporary Jesus.

Furthermore, the very ground of Christian theology calls upon the Christian theologian to recognize the death of God as an historical event.

When the divine meaning of the event is made to depend upon views of Jesus» divinity and when the presence of Christ in the church is made to depend upon a belief in the Resurrection, we cut the solid ground out from under the whole Christian position; we invest the purely speculative with an importance it does not possess and rely on it to perform a function it can not perform; and we open the door to discord and division.

In another interview, marking Zevon's death, she expanded upon that, noting that many of his best friends were «solid, grounded people with families, and that's what Warren always craved, even if he didn't always act like that.»

One could then never advance the issue of the identity of communicative focus upon a single item of mutual concern past the status of a more or less well - grounded assumption.

As Freeman Butts observed: ``... where the conception of a liberal education was firmly grounded upon religious and intellectual authority and discipline, the prescribed curriculum was more likely to be maintained longer against the inroads of the elective system with its attendant doctrines of freedom and flexibility.»

He draws heavily upon the philosopher Hans Jonas, who in turn shows the importance of a religiously grounded moral vision.

to do either is to appeal to some sort of «objective» anchor — and to draw out into the open that we are BOTH basing our positions upon metaphysics (thereby losing a false «high ground»).

On the other hand, Christian preaching is grounded upon that revelation, which it must obey as the «steward of the mysteries of God».

Would not he be a mere fool who, running at tournament with others, and falling in the best of the career, should lie weeping on the ground and afflicting himself with discourses upon his fall?

-- The Anthology is full of pessimistic utterances: «Naked came I upon the earth, naked I go below the ground — why then do I vainly toil when I see the end naked before me?»

At least one of them, that suggested by Tillich, depends to a considerable degree upon the Tillichian «system» in which there is much talk about «existential» and «essential» manhood, not to mention the more general philosophical position which he adopts with its talk about «the ground of being», «the power of being», and «the new being in Christ» — the last of these constituting in fact what «restitution» is all about.

And although superior persons in Jerusalem dismissed him as «this untrained man,» he appears to have been quite capable of meeting scholars learned in the Scriptures upon their own ground.

The missionary methods which he employed on this and on his third journey which covered much of the same ground were to determine the main lines of Christian development that followed his imprisonment and death, and through the later circulation of his epistles to have a permanent influence upon the form of Christian organisation and belief.

New ground, not really covered by either historians or theologians previously, was broken when sociologists of religion asked about the influence of societal factors upon religion.

Yet such a network of beliefs grounded in experience is still seemingly regarded by McGrath as an individual Weltanshauung, «theory laden», something of an imposition upon underdetermined data.

«7 It is the former mode of pre - or subconscious perception — exhibited in the behavior of bodily organs and tissues, manifest and directly observable also throughout the sentient but nonhuman world, and bearing a close resemblance to William James's «stream of consciousness» or «blooming, buzzing confusion» — upon which our conscious knowledge of the «causal nexus» may be grounded.

I would have supported the building of a mosque the day after 9-11-01, but then I am not brainwashed and the mosque is not being built on «ground zero», but upon private property far away from «ground zero».

They will crush you to the ground, you and your children within you, and they will not leave within you one stone upon another; because you did not recognize the time of your visitation.»

We know God when through a critical reflection upon our experience we discover impinging upon us that pervasive creative ground of our being which binds us to one another and to all things sharers in real good.

Yet if Jesus were God and not man at all, there was no ground for the author of the fourth Gospel to say, «And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, full of grace and truth» (John 1:14), or for the church to build its faith upon this foundation throughout the centuries.

Starting with an aspect of love In terms of Cardinal Bertone's helpful summary of the Open Letter, the theological ground upon which we are being invited to build includes: «belief in the one God, the provident Creator... (and that) we are all called to commit ourselves totally to him...» From the point of view of the Catholic faith the latter is an aspect of love for God, an aspect even of communion.

Too much theologizing is based merely upon the pale reflection of itself which it sees in philosophy, and needs a more thorough grounding in biblical studies.

A more beautiful vision To found inter-faith dialogue upon a human nature which is profoundly fulfilled by obeying commands of God, which, moreover, are universal norms, is (again) to play more on the ground of traditional Christianity.

Thus defined, it is not a mere belief, but a part of the empirical ground in the life of the community upon which sound belief of whatever kind must rest.

The disciples, struck with fear and illuminated with the sudden stream of light; looked at one another and fell face downwards upon the ground, worshipping thee the Master of all.

Indeed, if the role assigned by Cobb to Jesus is to be in keeping with both his own remarks concerning the providential guidance of God and the Whiteheadian principles upon which he acknowledges his work to be based, it seems that God should be both the ground of the «final and unsurpassable structure of existence» introduced by Jesus and «the one in relation to whom the health of that structure can be attained.»

In my opinion, this is a ground - breaking book which will help build unity to all forms of Christ's church upon the world.

He shows that the secularist takes our political institutions for granted while ignoring the logic of theology — that political discussion depends upon justice, that justice depends upon ethics, and that ethics is grounded in theology.

They will crush you to the ground, you and your children within you, and they will not leave within you one stone upon another; because you did not recognize the time of your visitation from God.

In modern times, the message has fallen upon the edge of the path, on the rocky ground, amongst the thorns and it is being destroyed.

If we can respectfully acknowledge that a majority of todays» generation of believers are taught into the faith by their parents, we reluctantly must conclude that the theology base of * a lot * of these believers is not upon careful reflection and personal choice upon the fervent divulgence of the Scriptures, but rather a hodge - podge compilation of «feel good» thoughts that have no biblical or moral grounding other than vague references.